The Top 10 Takeover dining series visits The Chapman House in Rochester, which was named one of the Detroit Free Press/Metro Detroit Chevy Dealers Best New Restaurants earlier this year.

Both geographically and aesthetically, Chapman House was an outlier on this year's Best New Restaurants list. The only entry not in Detroit or Ferndale, its Rochester location inside a meticulously restored mansion of a 19th-century textile tycoon makes it stand out.

And while the space is elegant and dinner here can feel like eating at a civilized but casual country manor, it's the food of executive chef Chris Cason and his sous chef and brother, Dan, that makes Chapman House a gem.